What Brand Motor Oil Do You Use In Your 6th Gen?

[SouthCoast]

lol at using 0w20…

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[SteveS]

Wow, out of grade in each of the first 1,000 miles OCI's and almost out of grade in the third. Insane. To me, that either points to TMO being ass or 0W-20 as a whole being a bad recommendation on Toyota's part.

Can you translate in to english?

 

[josiahg52]

Can you translate in to english?

The Toyota motor oil 0W20 sheared down out of grade during a 1000 mile interval. SAE J300 range at 100C for 0W20 is 6.9 to 9.3 cSt. Presumably, at 1000 miles, the analysis showed the oil at a lower viscosity.

My first 1000 mile OCI, the Toyota 0W20 had a viscosity of 6.88 cSt @ 100C, a 0W16, or very thin 0W20. There was some fuel dilution and it was a first oil change so some thinning might be expected. Waiting on the 2500 mile OCI analysis.

 

[morsk]

Can you translate in to english?

That report had 3 samples. Reading the columns from right-to-left, 3 oil changes were done with 1K miles on the oil, 2K miles on the oil, and 3K miles on the oil.

The first two samples had a 5.95 cSt Viscosity at 100C. The third and last sample had 6.10. The range for a 0W-20 oil is between 6.0 and 9.7 per the report.

What I'm saying is that the first two oil changes were below that range, so the oil was out-of-grade. The third and final was in-grade, but just by a hair.

I have been learning a lot about motor oil over the last few months and I plan to switch to 0W-30 very soon. I'm currently at 2,500 miles and I plan to use up the remaining 0W-20 PUP for the 3,000 and 5,000 mile OCI's. After that, I will be using Mobil 1 ESP 0W-30.

 

[morsk]

By the way, for all those interested, I will be posting my UOA's on BITOG for the next few OCI's. You can follow it here:

https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/t...atinum-0w-20-900-mi-used-oil-analysis.410352/

 

[TMLifer]

The Toyota motor oil 0W20 sheared down out of grade during a 1000 mile interval. SAE J300 range at 100C for 0W20 is 6.9 to 9.3 cSt. Presumably, at 1000 miles, the analysis showed the oil at a lower viscosity.

My first 1000 mile OCI, the Toyota 0W20 had a viscosity of 6.88 cSt @ 100C, a 0W16, or very thin 0W20. There was some fuel dilution and it was a first oil change so some thinning might be expected. Waiting on the 2500 mile OCI analysis.

Blackstone Lab's analysis reported the original factory 0W20 Toyota motor oil with a viscosity of 6.15 cSt from my first oil change at around 1,300 miles. I'm a newbie to doing oil analysis, but people had told me that the original factory Toyota 0W20 motor oil had essentially thinned to viscosity like 0W16. When I did my first oil change, I decided to use Pennzoil Ultra Platinum (PUP) 0W20 motor oil instead of using Toyota motor oil. It'll be interesting to see if the PUP breaks down as much as the Toyota motor oil when I do my next oil change and analysis. I'm guessing that the PUP oil won't break down or thin out as much, but we'll see...

 

[SouthCoast]

Blackstone Lab's analysis reported the original factory 0W20 Toyota motor oil with a viscosity of 6.15 cSt from my first oil change at around 1,300 miles. I'm a newbie to doing oil analysis, but people had told me that the original factory Toyota 0W20 motor oil had essentially thinned to viscosity like 0W16. When I did my first oil change, I decided to use Pennzoil Ultra Platinum (PUP) 0W20 motor oil instead of using Toyota motor oil. It'll be interesting to see if the PUP breaks down as much as the Toyota motor oil when I do my next oil change and analysis. I'm guessing that the PUP oil won't break down or thin out as much, but we'll see...

just use 5w30... there's nothing wrong with NOT using 0w20

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